Supreme Couple In Apocalypse: Undead King & Demonic Queen

Chapter 183: Lessons

"Death element is a duality element along with Life. Without life, death wouldn't be born, and without death, life wouldn't get its meaning."

"Death can give death and Life and can give life, but Death can also give life, and life can also grant death."

"They are opposite but share a connection. Hence, it's a Duality element with Life."

"That's why you can control dead things as if they are alive but not living. You can reverse death but can't oppose life, just as how life can't oppose death. Hence, those who live through death are called Undead."

"I see..." Erix nodded thoughtfully. "I got an undead energy source from my previous Zombie Lord class. Is it a byproduct of Death energy?"

"Yep. It's a sub-energy of Death, exclusively for the Undead department. Classes are a good thing since they give you another reserve of certain energy related to it and more skills."

Erix nodded with a grin, "I can't wait to get my new class."

"I would give some information on classes, but that will be for later."

Lilith crossed her arms, "For now, let's focus on Death Element."

Erix nodded while Lilith continued with her lecture.

"Although Death and Life are duality elements, they still have their own aspects that completely remain dominant over each other," Lilith smiled.

"Death Stream's effects on general living things are straightforward: it will erase life from it. But to have its effect on meta-living things and erase any form of life from them, you need to have sufficient understanding of Death element's aspects."

"Meta-living? Form of life?"

Lilith smiled and twirled her finger as a rock floated from the ground and arrived on her palm.

"Does this rock have life?"

Erix wryly smiled. He didn't know how to answer. Was it alive? Or maybe it was dead?

"Maybe the rock is alive, and that's why it has this form?" Erix said after thinking for a second. "If you use Death Stream on it, and it crumbles or something, then I guess the rock has life."

"Let's see," Lilith smiled. A tiny black mote appeared above the rock and touched it.

"This death stream's mote was produced from 1 point of mana."

In the next second, the tiny rock turned black and turned into tiny particles before vanishing.

"So it has life?" Erix raised his eyebrows, but then a glint flashed through his eyes. "Wait..."

"I didn't sense any death power from the rock..." Erix mumbled. "If it had life, then killing it should produce death power like the monsters I killed."

"Or is it that the death power it produced was weak and minuscule such that I couldn't sense it?"

Lilith didn't answer and twirled her finger once as a small rock floated before Erix.

"Use death stream worth 100 mana on it," Lilith playfully smiled.

"Why 100?" Erix was confused. "It's just a rock, so wouldn't 1-mana death mote work?"

'The properties of that Undead energy...Its effects weren't in my influence but given to it by the class core, so it will help me if I recall and understand it.'

Time slowly passed as Erix let himself fall into the deep focus of understanding the realm of death.

Meanwhile, Lilith woke up others and told them to eat to recover, especially Reinala and Klelia.

The ladies sat at the table and started eating.

"You two," Lilith looked at Reinala and Klelia, "You better eat to full and recover in time so that Erix can suck you dry again tomorrow."

"Mhmm," Kelia nodded with a slightly red face while Reinala just grunted in response and started eating.

"Lilith, It's time that I go and kill something with my Blade," Rin said with a determined expression. "I got my Lightning affinity to level 3. The wind is level 1, but It might take a bit more time to get it to level 2, so I want to get my Blade concept to level 2."

"Concepts are a journey of myriad paths, and level 2 concept is the biggest hurdle because you have to decide the higher meaning of your Concept," Lilith said after taking a bite from a veggie sandwich.

"If you think you can give a higher meaning to your Blade, then you can act according to it," Lilith smiled. "So, I'll become your sparring partner. I'll use my umbrella and make my stats the same as yours."

Rin's eyes shone. "That's perfect!"

"But..." Rin chuckled before she continued, "If we are going to fight purely physically, then you might need higher stats since I have Blade concept, and it automatically makes my Blade attacks 50% stronger."

"That's not necessary, Rin," Lily said as she shook her head.

"Did I tell you that I also have two concepts, and one of them is Penetrate at level 2?" Lilith grinned.

"Penetrate?" Rin raised her eyebrows. "That Gentle Death old man had Pierce concept...what is the difference between two?"

"Well, both have differences physically, magically, and figuratively," Lilith said after taking a meat dumpling into her mouth.

"Pierce is when something pointy makes a hole into something if we speak about physical Piercing," Lilith said. "Figuratively speaking, it's like 'your words pierced my heart.'"

Everyone nodded as they listened.

"But Penetrate is broader," Lilith smiled. "Penetration doesn't mean a precise or localized action of creating a hole. Penetration means going inside."

"Aaaaa!" Reinala's eyes turned wide. "Now I understand how my stomach suddenly exploded from inside!"

"Your skill was influenced by the Penetrate concept, so it penetrated inside me before exploding."

"Yep," Lilith chuckled and nodded. "Pierce is making an opening, and Penetration is simply going inside. It can be physically or magically. Since I penetrated my skill inside you because your spirit force was too weak to block it, I easily injured it. Normally, I don't use Penetrate like this, but you were too easy of a Royal order."

"..." Reinala grit her teeth, but then started eating with her head down.

On the other hand Rin and Kelia nodded in understanding.

"It sounds like Penetration is more powerful than Pierce," Klelia said after she took a sip from the juice glass.

Lilith shook her head, "Concepts are wholly dependent on individuals, especially after reaching the 2nd realm of any Concept."

"Let's eat quickly and spar," Rin grinned and started focusing on eating.